What does safety alert symbol mean?

A safety alert symbol has been added as a key component to OSHA’s safety sign standard. This symbol, an exclamation point surrounded by a triangle, indicates a potential personal injury hazard, and should not be used for possible damage to equipment or machines.

Which are used to indicate a potentially hazardous situation which if not avoided may result in minor or moderate injury?

Caution
Caution indicates a potentially hazardous situation, which, if not avoided, may result in minor or moderate injury. Caution used without the safety alert symbol indicates a potentially hazardous situation, which, if not avoided, may result in property damage.

What are the 4 safety symbols?

4 Key Types of Safety Symbols

• Prohibition.
• Warning.
• Mandatory.
• Emergency.

What are the use of safety signs and symbols?

Safety signs and symbols are important safety communicating tools, they help to indicate various hazards that present in plant site or workplace. At the same time, they warn workers to always keep watching out for those hazards by giving required information and safety instructions.

What are the safety symbols?

Safety symbols, hazard symbols or safety labels are meaningful and recognizable graphical symbols that warn of or identify hazards associated with the location or item.

What are the hazard warning symbols?

Hazard pictograms (symbols)

• Explosive (Symbol: exploding bomb)
• Flammable (Symbol: flame)
• Oxidising (Symbol: flame over circle)
• Corrosive (Symbol: corrosion)
• Acute toxicity (Symbol: skull and crossbones)
• Hazardous to the environment (Symbol: environment)

What are safety symbols?

Why are picture signs useful?

Safety Signs are crucial in any work environment. The primary importance of displaying Safety Signs is to prevent injury and ensure staff and visitors are well aware of the possible dangers and hazards ahead in certain situations and/or environments.

What do you symbols represent?

A symbol is a mark, sign, or word that indicates, signifies, or is understood as representing an idea, object, or relationship. Symbols allow people to go beyond what is known or seen by creating linkages between otherwise very different concepts and experiences. The academic study of symbols is semiotics.